NEWS CLIPS : GREENSTONE'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT!

[Posted 2 August 2016]#61. PLANE LANDS IN SCHOOL YARD25 Apr. 1957 –Jack Healey of Toronto was forced to land in the Geraldton Public School yard Monday afternoon . . . His light Cessna 170, equipped with wheels, followed the Trans-Canada Northern Route to Geraldton on his way to Armstrong, his next refueling stop. When he reached Geraldton he found that Armstrong was not on his road map and that he was low on fuel . . . A bent propellor and a damaged undercarriage was the result of his landing. His wife and two children . . . were with him. Nobody was hurt. [Photo caption]

[Posted 26 July 2016]#60. GOLD FEVER IN BEARDMORE4 July 1936 ̶ They talk about it; they dream about it. They can't eat a meal without referring to it. It becomes the sole topic of conversation where and when men gather here in Beardmore. Even the women have the gold fever. Go into any restaurant, store, or home in Beardmore and the first thing with which the women open a conversation is something about gold. Had you heard about what was going on at this and that mine? Did you know that Mr. So and So was in town to start work on his claims? . . . Beardmore is like any other growing mining community. It has its beer parlors, its dance hall . . . Day after day crowd a motley assortment of people. The plain miner, United States engineers, the officers of the holding companies, the man who has done something and hides from the police. They come from Ireland, South Africa, from the Sudbury, Copper Cliff areas, they all crowd into Beardmore . . . At night the town takes on its most festive air. ̶ The Port Arthur News-Chronicle

[Posted 19 July 2016]#59. BRITISH PEERAGE HOLIDAY AT ORIENT BAYJuly 1920 ̶ Lord Dalkeith, and some other members of the British Peerage, have been visitors at the Lodge, Orient Bay. Why don't we see more Canadians visiting such places, where entrancing beauties are combined with unexcelled sporting possibilities? One would be excused for believing that we do not know our own country, and had to wait for Old Britain and the States to show us what is really worth seeing, and having. ̶ Canadian National Railways Magazine

[Posted 12 July 2016]#58. BARGAIN EGGS17 May 1956 – Last Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Archie Harkes [sic] of Longlac, . . . when preparing the morning meal, . . . opened six eggs all with double yolks. All the eggs came from the same dozen carton . . . [By Tuesday] out of the dozen eggs purchased, they discovered a total of 21 yolks . . . All the eggs were local, all coming from the Wild Goose Lake Farm that has been operated by Mr. and Mrs. Gerry Kueng.

[Posted 5 July 2016]#57. SNEAK THIEF21 May 1964 – One of the show places of Geraldton is the lawn and gardens of Father Des Fosses, Parish Priest of St. Theresa’s Roman Catholic Church, residence. His lawn [has] been admired so much that a thief took it upon himself and stole two prize rose bushes . . . He even used the garden tools that belong to Father Des Fosses.

[Posted 25 March 2016]#56. BEARDMORE'S NEW SCHOOL18 Dec. 1947 – A dream of two years ago was realized Friday evening, November 28, with the official opening of the new public school at Beardmore.29 Apr. 1948 – The [Beardmore Branch of the Canadian Legion} has purchased the old Beardmore school and is planning to move it onto two Legion-owned lots on Main Street.30 Sep. 1948 – Enrolment at the Beardmore school this term is 138.

[Posted 22 March 2016]#55. CONVICTED FOR RETAINING HOT BUTTER3 June 1948 – They [two men] were convicted of purchasing stolen butter from J ̶ P ̶ C ̶ . . . C ̶ told them, they said, he had brought it from a farm near Hearst, for use in the pulp camp where he was employed, but was without funds and was forced to sell the butter to raise bus fare to Lahti’s Camp.

[Posted 18 March 2016]#54. A REAL FISHING YARN21 Nov. 1963 – Eleven-year-old Freddie Davey . . . was fishing from the Kimberly-Clark Company "cat-walk" at the north end of Long Lake . . . The boy was using a homemade fishing rod, with an attachment of heavy store string and a single hook baited with a minnow . . . Upon landing his prize, he found he was hooked into a furiously fighting live mink . . . [A Good Samaritan] came to the rescue and released the animal.

[Posted 15 March 2016]#53. NAKINA ROAD CONTRACTS LET20 Jan. 1955 – “Work will start within a week or ten days on the Nakina to Geraldton access road,” it was announced by Geo. Wardrope, M.L.A. of the Port Arthur riding, while he addressed Council meeting last night . . . He estimated that the road would cost the Department approximately $12,000 per mile, and the road when completed would be some 38 miles long.

[Posted 11 March 2016]#52. THIS IS THE POLICE REALLY AT WORK15 Jan. 1959 – [Geraldton] Council members heard the annual Police report . . . This gem was mentioned. Number of cars stolen, none. Number of stolen cars recovered, one. That is efficiency with a plus.